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In numerous networks, it is vital to identify communities consisting of closely joined groups of individuals. Such communities often reveal the role of the networks or primary properties of the individuals. In this perspective, Newman and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Ghazal Ghajari , Hooshang Jazayeri-Rad , Mashalla Abbasi Dezfooli

Identifying community structure is a fundamental problem in network analysis. Most community detection algorithms are based on optimizing a combinatorial parameter, for example modularity. This optimization is generally NP-hard, thus merely…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-02-26 Tanmoy Chakraborty , Sriram Srinivasan , Niloy Ganguly , Sanjukta Bhowmick , Animesh Mukherjee

We survey the application of a relatively new branch of statistical physics--"community detection"-- to data mining. In particular, we focus on the diagnosis of materials and automated image segmentation. Community detection describes the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-22 Z. Nussinov , P. Ronhovde , Dandan Hu , S. Chakrabarty , M. Sahu , Bo Sun , N. A. Mauro , K. K. Sahu

Discovering communities in complex networks means grouping nodes similar to each other, to uncover latent information about them. There are hundreds of different algorithms to solve the community detection task, each with its own…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Michele Coscia

We investigate the recently proposed label-propagation algorithm (LPA) for identifying network communities. We reformulate the LPA as an equivalent optimization problem, giving an objective function whose maxima correspond to community…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-08-31 Michael J. Barber , John W. Clark

In the last few years, there has been a great interest in detecting overlapping communities in complex networks, which is understood as dense groups of nodes featuring a low outbound density. To date, most methods used to compute such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-02-22 Adrien Friggeri , Guillaume Chelius , Eric Fleury

Most methods proposed to uncover communities in complex networks rely on combinatorial graph properties. Usually an edge-counting quality function, such as modularity, is optimized over all partitions of the graph compared against a null…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-02-17 Renaud Lambiotte , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Mauricio Barahona

Recognizing number of communities and detecting community structures of complex network are discussed in this paper. As a visual and feasible algorithm, block model has been successfully applied to detect community structures in complex…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-03-20 Hongjue Wang , Tao Wang

A significant problem in analysis of complex network is to reveal community structure, in which network nodes are tightly connected in the same communities, between which there are sparse connections. Previous algorithms for community…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-25 Jingming Zhang , Jianjun Cheng , Xing Su , Xinhong Yin , Shiyan Zhao , Xiaoyun Chen

Community detection is a widely-studied unsupervised learning problem in which the task is to group similar entities together based on observed pairwise entity interactions. This problem has applications in diverse domains such as social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Jimit Majmudar , Stephen Vavasis

Bipartite networks composed of dichotomous node sets are ubiquitous in nature and society. Partly for simplicity's sake, many studies have focused on their projection onto their unipartite versions where one only needs to care about a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-01-03 Sang Hoon Lee

It is common in the study of networks to investigate meso-scale features to try to gain an understanding of network structure and function. For example, numerous algorithms have been developed to try to identify "communities," which are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Lucas G. S. Jeub , Prakash Balachandran , Mason A. Porter , Peter J. Mucha , Michael W. Mahoney

Community detection is a commonly used technique for identifying groups in a network based on similarities in connectivity patterns. To facilitate community detection in large networks, we recast the network to be partitioned into a smaller…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Natalie Stanley , Roland Kwitt , Marc Niethammer , Peter J. Mucha

A common data mining task on networks is community detection, which seeks an unsupervised decomposition of a network into structural groups based on statistical regularities in the network's connectivity. Although many methods exist, the No…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-10 Amir Ghasemian , Homa Hosseinmardi , Aaron Clauset

We present a novel method for detecting communities in bipartite networks. Based on an extension of the $k$-clique community detection algorithm, we demonstrate how modular structure in bipartite networks presents itself as overlapping…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-07-22 Sune Lehmann , Martin Schwartz , Lars Kai Hansen

We consider the problem of fuzzy community detection in networks, which complements and expands the concept of overlapping community structure. Our approach allows each vertex of the graph to belong to multiple communities at the same time,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-11-10 Tamás Nepusz , Andrea Petróczi , László Négyessy , Fülöp Bazsó

Community detection is a fundamental problem in computational sciences with extensive applications in various fields. The most commonly used methods are the algorithms designed to maximize modularity over different partitions of the network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Samin Aref , Mahdi Mostajabdaveh , Hriday Chheda

Communities are clusters of nodes with a higher than average density of internal connections. Their detection is of great relevance to better understand the structure and hierarchies present in a network. Modularity has become a standard…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-17 Filippo Radicchi , Andrea Lancichinetti , José J. Ramasco

In this paper, we propose MOUFLON, a fairness-aware, modularity-based community detection method that allows adjusting the importance of partition quality over fairness outcomes. MOUFLON uses a novel proportional balance fairness metric,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Georgios Panayiotou , Anand Mathew Muthukulam Simon , Matteo Magnani , Ece Calikus

Community detection is one of the most active fields in complex networks analysis, due to its potential value in practical applications. Many works inspired by different paradigms are devoted to the development of algorithmic solutions…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-08-16 Günce Orman , Vincent Labatut , Hocine Cherifi